Legal Case Study Of Officer Johnny's Ethical Dilemmas

Officer Green will represent the best friend of fifteen years to Officer Johnny. Officer Johnny will represent himself, the police officer who is working an unauthorized security job with a firm. Officer Green and Officer Johnny are both assigned to work patrol on the midnight shift and have been together through thick and thin over the last fifteen years.
In the scenario provided Officer Johnny is described as being a great police officer, who gives back to the community regularly. Officer Green and Officer Johnny’s relationship goes beyond the work environment, because their families vacation together. Recently, Officer Johnny’s wife was laid off work due to the turbulent economic times, which created a hardship on Officer Johnny’s family. …show more content…
Officer Green allowed Officer Johnny to sleep for fifteen minutes while on duty. Officer Green is faced with whether or not to take Officer Johnny’s service call and allow Officer Johnny to report to his second job on time. Officer Green must decide whether or not to report Officer Johnny for working the second unauthorized job. Officer Green must decide whether or not to keep covering for Officer Johnny and whether or not to keep his secret. If Officer Green decides to report Officer Johnny for working the second job, Officer Johnny’s family may suffer even more financially. Officer Johnny must decide whether or not to ditch the service call and report to his second job. Officer Johnny must decide whether or not to quit his second job and apply for an authorized job that the department approves of. Officer Johnny must decide whether or not to report himself for wearing departmental clothing and equipment to a second job, sleeping on duty, neglecting his service calls, and working an unauthorized second …show more content…
If Officer Green opts not to report Officer Johnny for his wrongdoing, then Officer Green will be covering up Officer Johnny’s violations of departmental rules and regulations. Nonfeasance is defined as failure to take the necessary action as required by departmental policy. Misfeasance is doing a required and lawful task or job in an unacceptable, inappropriate, or unprofessional manner. Officer Johnny is not committing a crime by working the second job; however, the wearing of the department’s uniform and equipment constitutes a misfeasance. Officer Johnny failed to get the authorization and approval by the Chief of Police before accepting the second job so he is guilty of nonfeasance also. I think that the only bad things that may arise out of this plan of action is that Officer Johnny will receive some form of disciplinary action and unfortunately his family’s finances will suffer as a result. Officer Green can possibly be disciplined too s well as the other officers for covering up for Officer Johnny for three months without reporting it to the